AMD Radeon R9 390: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon R9 390 sales 18 June 2015 at a recommended price of $329. This is GCN 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1000 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 384 GB / s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 275 mm. 1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 275 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 37.84 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.

Technical specs

Radeon R9 390's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 390's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 390: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Overall benchmark performance

Unigine Heaven 4.0

Passmark

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 390. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

593 Mh/s

Decred / DCR (Decred)

0.95 Gh/s

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

29.26 Mh/s

Monero / XMR (CryptoNight)

0.81 kh/s

Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)

380.03 Sol/s

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Radeon R9 390 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.

Fortnite

2018

Official system requirements

Radeon R9 390 performance compared to Fortnite official system requirements.